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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73552)	5/18/2010 2:45:47 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

You've been fiction somewhere in cyberspace because is appears the Deepwater Horizon had not seen a government regulator for months. It was the BP drilling supervisor who ordered the mud be withdrawn, over the objections of the supervisor for the company which owned the platform. BP managers acted in a bizarrely imprudent manner on this project and really screwed up. I suppose you'd know better than I if this is typical of BP culture. .

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73552)	5/18/2010 6:14:51 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 74559

btw. I just realized what the three guys should have said at the senate hearings. All three of them should have said "The accident was at least partially MY fault". Not only would that have been true, but the legal eagles would be hapless to find fault with those statements. All three would have been equally liable by what they said. The lawyers can sort out the details. The public perception would have been much better of oil companies. Big improvement. Hindsight is 20 20 vision though. It's too late now I suppose. Oh well ....

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73552)	5/20/2010 1:18:17 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 74559

I'm keen to see how the cut and thrust goes with this one. Message 26550791 There is a huge focus on one well that went wrong. The real question is how normal operations are carried out day to day on a large number of wells that are working. No idea how this one is going to swing, I expect it could remain a cloudy issue for some time. It's one of those areas where lots of B/S can surface I expect from any number of sources. Worse then a broken sub sea oil line probably -ng- Some interesting comments written at the bottom of the article.